Silly me: I thought the Mets’ struggles had to do with poor starting pitching, and lousy clutch hitting, and questionable situational performance, and the fact that they can’t seem to play sound, crisp baseball for more than about 15 minutes at a stretch. I should have known, of course, that the real culprits are me, and Joel Sherman, and Bart Hubboch, and the Daily News crew, all of us conspiring to shut the Mets down like Josh Johnson. I’m sure glad that’s been fixed.

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Seriously, it’s starting to get silly just how good Zack Greinke is, almost as silly as Greinke has been making major-league hitters look over his first six games. There is nothing better in the sport than “destination” pitchers, where you mark your calendar each week and circle the date. Johan Santana is like that, and so is Roy Halladay. And believe me, circling Greinke’s days will be worth your while.